author
James Oscar Boyd
1874–1947
Remembered as a Presbyterian scholar and teacher, he wrote accessible Bible study works as well as specialized research on Ezra and the Ethiopic Old Testament. His career joined classroom scholarship with a long record of church service and international correspondence.
1 Audiobook
A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments
by James Oscar Boyd, J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen
About the author
Born in New Jersey in 1874, he studied at New York University, the University of Erlangen in Germany, and Princeton Theological Seminary before going on to build a career in biblical scholarship and ministry. Sources available here describe him as an American theologian and note that he died in 1947.
He is best known as a teacher of Oriental and Old Testament literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, and as the author of more than thirty books and pamphlets. His better-known works include A Brief Bible History, The Historicity of Ezra, The Documents of the Book of Ezra, and studies of the Ethiopic Octateuch.
Archival records at Princeton Theological Seminary show that his papers include lectures, articles, sermons, international correspondence, and six Ethiopian manuscripts. That surviving material suggests a writer whose interests ranged from careful textual study to practical religious education.